Introducing claudia
Associate Landscape Architect Claudia Frost is part of the growing Land Studio team.
Claudia, who moved to the UK from America, loves our landscape first approach and how we work closely in-house with a team of engineers and ecologists. She says:
Tell me a bit about you: I am from the southeastern USA and grew up in Georgia and North Carolina.
What’s your role at Land Studio: I am an Associate Landscape Architect, and my primary role is in overseeing multiple projects and mentoring where needed.
Your career to date: I discovered that I wanted to be a landscape architect a couple of months after graduating with my bachelor’s degree in environmental health.
Before getting my Masters in Landscape Architecture I interned with several landscape architecture firms, and worked as a schoolteacher, garden designer and environmental health specialist.
After graduating with my MLA I worked in the public sector as a senior planner for seven years, and then moved to the private sector and have been here ever since. I am licenced as a landscape architect in the USA and chartered in the UK as of 2021. I moved to the UK a few years ago after marrying a Brit.
What do you like about Land Studio: I was attracted to the multidisciplinary aspect of the business. It’s great to be around the table with engineers and ecologists and I love how much I am learning from them. Land Studio also has a strong landscape led approach to design that I agree with.
What drives you: My thesis project in graduate school was connectivity and the River Lagan in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and I haven’t stopped obsessing over connectivity related themes since then.
I love exploring ways to connect the environment, either through biodiversity and habitat connections or active travel networks, streetscape improvements and urban design improvements of public spaces. Regeneration and heritage projects also really inspire me.
How do you relax outside of work: I garden and I paint with encaustic (an ancient medium using beeswax and damar resin, heated and then worked on a hard surface). I also love exploring my new home in North Wales and across the region.